Same appealing. I spend like 3 hours to make great thumbnails because this is what people click to the video. I edit my videos and sync with music (if you have seen agario content). I do good SEO to my videos, write good descriptions and tags (no spam tags) use vidiq to check other competitors tags. Since my channel is small, I don't make it to other people's related videos because I get like 700 views from my legit subscribers which is not enough.
I post my videos in reddit agario community but only like 20 people watch the video and used fb groups, about 50 people watch the video (not only my video, everyone's video get like 60 views, I have seen). So now I don't use anymore, neither the channels which I have mentioned above uses. Like I said, I think they found a cheap view provider which delivers 100K+ views and no problem with monetization.